Has the cooling issue form X875 series been corrected in this new series?
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I'm not familiar with the X875 series so I don't know how bad the cooling problems were with that series, but my tests on my X75 don't show any major problems (see my review). What I did was run FurMark on it for about 3 or 4 days any time that I wasn't using the laptop to see if it experienced any problems, and I didn't encounter any. This is with the laptop sitting on a wooden table and an ambient temperature of around 72F. I did do some testing to see if a cooling pad would improve performance (the GPU will automatically slow down to keep itself cooler than 80C), and I found that 1) it only improved performance by about 10%, 2) it didn't matter if the fan in the cooling pad was turned on, and 3) simply setting the laptop on top of four 1/2" dice (using them as small plastic blocks to put it "up on blocks") had the same performance improvement as the cooling pad. Even with the cooling pad, the FPS drops slightly (something less than 5%) once the GPU heats up (after maybe 10 seconds). So technically the GPU performance is "thermally limited" as it doesn't have the cooling capacity to run continuously at 100%, but the drop in performance is 1) very slight, even under the worst load and 2) barely noticeable in the benchmark and not noticeable at all to me in real-world use (games) where the capacity is not maxed out all the time the way it is in a benchmark. So I don't even bother to use the laptop with a cooling pad/blocks. Also, here is a 3DMark benchmark result for the laptop with no extra cooling: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1387253 (this is very slightly better than their reference "gaming laptop" from 2013).
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I've had mine since November, the only issue i have with mine is that one of the smaller fans sticks/freezes on start up. With a small "bump" it works fine. Other than that i have no other problems with my unit.
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Sorry Frank. I'm still waiting for the CPU. I ordered this M/B and the 20th Anniversary Intel CPU. Haven't got the CPU in yet so have not fired up this board.
970444
Been in my gaming PC since March. Running it on a ASRock Socket FM2/AMD A75 FCHZero problems.
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You most likely no longer care but this answer is for new buyers, i had a 550lc on my 3770k for 3 years and never a single problem.
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The themal paste on that is fresh on a new cooler should be fine . If you reuse the cooler, use new thermal paste.
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I have had it since October with no issues at all.I must say that a BIOS update was needs because there were some throttling issues, and I consider unacceptable fiddling with a brand new out of the box new GPU BIOS.But beyond that I haven't had any problems.Probably some production batches were faulty and hence people having issues with it, maybe I was lucky.So far my experience with this card has been great, but that's just me.
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I stuck with the stock fans and they've worked for me - quiet, no overheating. That said, I should mention that I'm not overclocking anything in this build and did the best I could to keep wires out of the airflow channels (cable management is still a challenge in this form factor, but if you're doing it for cooling and don't care what things look like once the case is closed, you're fine). I'm running an i5 4670K with stock heat sink/fan, Corsair Vengeance RAM, 2 x 2TB hard drives.
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I got the U31SD-XH51 with 2nd-Gen Intel iCore5 and a discrete nVidia GPU for heavy tasks (was on sale for $600USD) instead so I can't exactly tell you anything here. Mine runs extremely cool for browsing stuff and watching videos (fan doesn't even run at all unless I play 3D games). I also give credit to Asus for a well-designed cooling system on their laptop brand. Sources: I still own an HP-DV2210us model so I know exactly what you mean.
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Hmmm, the primary "problems" (disconnection/reliability) with the v1 were almost certainly traced back to the overheating problems as far as I understand. So the real hope is that the v2 would address that design problem (aside from the cost-reduction angle, that is) with possible heat-sink or ventilation improvements. Or so I am hoping.Either ways, Dogma512 and Tusker, thanks for your note and would appreciate your comments on how you are finding the v1 units. How are they doing, especially on the reliability front ?
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I used the stock intel fan cooler that came with my E6300 when I replaced it with the E8600. No problems with overheating and I do not anticipate any. Hope this helps.
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I recommend this H110 280mm. It's been working great since I got it. No more overheat and crash
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I've used mine full power for nearly a year now, and there is some signs of oil build-up on the cover. the real issue is the fan bearings failing. actually, the real issue is getting a fully-functional product back from MSI on an RMA. I'm on my 3rd attempt at it, and it all started with a minor inconvenience of the fans not starting, they needed a push to start.
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You're definitely right! I think the chip outputs too much heat. What I did is undervolted the cpu from the BIOS and also disabled the AMD Turbo Technology, and now it's so much cooler and quieter. Temp on idle around 30-35 load 50-55. Lowest degree was 25. That's insane with the stock fan!
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FYI - I've got an HP with an AMD chip and that sucker runs hot (running Vista). Cooling fan runs all the time. Another HP I recently bought has the Intel chip and it runs significanlt cooler (Win 7). Can't tell if it the chip or OS but all I can report is what I'm experiencing. The guy at Best Buy had the same comment on AMD chips.
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Can't answer for EVGA, but this is almost never the case. I can't think of a time disassembling the cooler did void my warranty.
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I wouldn't return that just yet. Don't think this is the same model as mine, but if it's not under a load and running cold the fan is designed to adjust speed automatically and even stop. It may not be broken. That supply being 1,000 watts is going to take some heavy use before you see that fan come on I bet. My 750 stops all the time running 3 mechanical hard drives a ssd and 2 video cards.